Educational apparatus



' VIRGINIA/Z W. P. WEISS.

EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1, 1921.

Patented May 23, 1922.

VINIOHIA 2 a RICHMOND/ ([NOWHDIEkg WILLIAM I. WEISS, 0F BLOOMSBURG,PENNSYLVANIA.

EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS.

Application filed March 1, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern: v Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. \Vnrss, acitizen of the United States, residing at Bloomsburg, in the county ofColumbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful-Improvements in Educational Apparatus; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in educational apparatus, andmore particularly to a card game having as its primary object simple andeflicient means for pre senting in an interesting manner facts ofgeography designed to be impressed on the mind of the player with aminimum amount of effort and the stimulus of interest in the game as anincentive.

A more detailed object in view is the provision of two decks of cards,each of the cards of one deck bearing the name or other indicia of aState of the Union, and each of the cards of the other deck bearing thename or other indicia of the capital of a State of the Union.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the State cards.

Figure 2 is a similar view of one of the capital cards.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 1 is a card of the ordinaryplaying card type bearing the printed name 2, or other indicia, of aState. 3 is a similar card to card 1 but bearing the printed name 4, orother indicia, of the capital of a State. On each of the cards 1 and 3in addition to the printed name may appear pictorial indicia, such, forexample, as the picture of the capitol building on card 3. A number ofcards 1 is employed to make up a deck equal to the number of States ofthe Union plus the Territories or other political divisions desired, andthe number of cards 3 will be equal to the number of cards 1, and foreach card 1 bearing a State name there is a card 3 bearing the name ofthe capital of the given State. For this reason the cards 1 will behereinafter referred to as the State cards and the cards 3 as thecapital cards.

It will be apparent to those familiar with various card games that quitea large variety of games may be played with the pres- Speeification ofLetters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1922. Serial No. 448,813.

ent improved cards, one illustrative game consisting of the following:

The deck of State cards is shuflied and the deck of capital cards isseparately shuiiled. Then a hand is distributed to each player from theState cards. The capital cards are placed face down on the table and thesuccessive players draw one card from the top of the deck of capitalcards. If the card drawn by a player is desired he retains it, butotherwise turns it face down along the side of the remaining cards ofthe deck. The object is to make books each consistmg of two cards, aState card with its corresponding capital card. When the deck of capltalcards has been gone through once, if some one of the players has notalready made books of all of his State cards, the players continue todraw by drawing from the newly formed stack of capital cards. When aplayer draws a capital card corresponding with one of the State cardsheld by him, he places the two cards making the book face up on thetable. If he makes a mistake and lays down a pair of cards as a bookwhich, in fact, is not a book, because the capital named is not that ofthe State named, the player is subject to a forfeiture Wl11Cl1 may bevaried according to the number of people playing, such as being requiredto retain the exposed State card and drawing an extra State card fromthe undistributed portion of the deck and the giving of the capital cardto the player who discovered the error. The same forfeiture applies toan accusing player who makes a mistake in accusing some other player oferror. By preference, a map of the United States is kept convenient tothe players for the purpose of rectifying errors and estab lishing factswhen necessary;

It will be observed that this game is especially characterized by itssimplicity, and is well designed for the development of school childrenat that age where they are in the course of studying politicalgeography, but the game is not limited to children, since itfrequentlyhappens that older people do not always recall with accuracy the Statesand their capitals.

What I claim is 1. An educational card game comprising two decks ofplaying cards, the cards of one deck each bearing indicia of a State ofthe Union, or Territory thereof, and the cards of the other deck eachhearing indicia of the LIL-17:48;

deck each bearing indicia of a political division, and the cards of theother deck each bearing a picture ofthe capitol building of a divisionindicated by one of the cards of the other deck. o

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM P. \VEISS.

- Witnesses J. F. EDWARDs, 'C. W. SINGER.

